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Re: Magico by Iwamoto Naoki

Originally Posted by Googlez_kun

Hmm,I don't know if Enigma is a good example. The plot was not as expendable as Magico's and it aimed at a different, more serious readership. Having success with a manga like Enigma is more difficult than with a simple mainstream manga like Magico.
I can't really tell what exactly made Magico fail. I guess it lacked a certain essence. Something beneath that shallow mainstream surface.

One of the obvious problems from the get go was the actual story, in that it was always going to be just a journey and a series of short adventures, without a large number of returning characters. I always thought that that was a problem. We never saw the second Sage again after that like 10 page battle early on in the series. Magico had potential, but it didn't fully come together.

There was never really anyone in the way of succeeding with the quest, so the lack of a recurring villain didn't help either. Jump series, at least non-romcom series, always have some form of villain, but Magico lacked that.

Re: Magico by Iwamoto Naoki

Originally Posted by FrostyMouse

One of the obvious problems from the get go was the actual story, in that it was always going to be just a journey and a series of short adventures, without a large number of returning characters. I always thought that that was a problem. We never saw the second Sage again after that like 10 page battle early on in the series. Magico had potential, but it didn't fully come together.

There was never really anyone in the way of succeeding with the quest, so the lack of a recurring villain didn't help either. Jump series, at least non-romcom series, always have some form of villain, but Magico lacked that.

Re: Magico by Iwamoto Naoki

Originally Posted by FrostyMouse

One of the obvious problems from the get go was the actual story, in that it was always going to be just a journey and a series of short adventures, without a large number of returning characters. I always thought that that was a problem. We never saw the second Sage again after that like 10 page battle early on in the series. Magico had potential, but it didn't fully come together.

There was never really anyone in the way of succeeding with the quest, so the lack of a recurring villain didn't help either. Jump series, at least non-romcom series, always have some form of villain, but Magico lacked that.

It probably would have helped if OZ's presence was felt from the beginning, even more now that we now that he and Echidna had always been watching Shion since the beginnign.

Re: Magico by Iwamoto Naoki

Such a short and sweet ending. I'm gonna miss Magico. If chance comes, I hope it could have an extra chapter or the characters may have some kind of cameo (about what happens on their new life/journey) in the mangaka's other series.